This in no way new. It isn’t that long ago a cop was videotaped telling people that “this is not America anymore” to shut them up.
Officer Does Not Like anti-Obama Poster: “It ain’t [America] no more, OK?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKPKjl0-pg
When she asked for a lawyer, he said, we don't do that around here.
Prosecutor dropped the charges and expunged the record. Said that she should have never been arrested to begin with. Cop just got mad cause he thought she wasn't respectful enough.